Buchholz/Kalispell City Airport
To Kalispell city council.
My name is Scott Buchholz I am the owner of Mastodon Crane service.
Based out of Kalispell.
I am 100 percent against the closing of the city airport.
I am also shocked that a small group though disinformation is trying to
close the airport.
The next thing they will try is to close or move the sewage treatment
plant because it smells bad in there back yard.
I will stay to the point.
The airport has been good for my business I have worked on 4 of the
hangers and plowed snow for others, this put dollers into my business
that in turn spent in Kalispell.
The airport is good for the local economy it is with in walking distance
of lodging food and others stores.
Safety was one issue that was brought up. That was one reason they
wanted to improve the airport longer strip and wider.
And reline it for less noise and safer.
Pilots are the safest people around, before they get in there plane they
do a complete safety check. there planes get certafied each year. and so
do the pilots.
How many people check there cars out that way before driving.
They complain about the planes coming in to land and take off over town.
There are many airports in this state that do that.
Missoula Hamilton Butte Billings just for starters.
I used to live under the approach to Hamilton I never felt that it was a
problem. and they built the new high school in Hamilton in the flight
pattern.
If you want to see a safety problem be around the high school before or
after school and see the kids speeding up and down the streets running
stop signs or better yet football game night try to drive though that
side of town.
Were will the small planes go if you close the city, Glacier Int Now if
that isn't a bad idea mix small slow planes with big fast ones,
you now have the chance to kill a hundred or more at one shot. This
Quiet skies group wont care unless some one in ther family is on that
plane. and then they will sue because you closed it.
One question remains if the Quiet skies group didnt want to live by a
airport WHY DID THEY BUY A HOUSE NEXT TO ONE.
The airport has been around longer than most of us living now.
I thank you for reading this e-mail I would come to the meeting but I
cannot, I am being forced to work out of the valley and out of state.
AND YES I AM FLYING OUT. I will be back in two months
So please do not let a small group that is only interested in there
little corner of Kalispell decide whats best for thr rest of Kalispell
and the entire Flathead valley, the pilots and people that use the
airport dont just live in kalispell WE come from the whole valley and WE
spend our money here in Kalispell.
Scott Buchholz
Owner Mastodon Crane Service.
Kalispell
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